Tuesday, July 10, 2007

217 Million People Play Online Games

The study took into account all sites that provide online ordownloadable games but excluded gambling sites. The 217million usersaccount for 28 percent of all people online.

Yahoo! Games led the pack, attracting 53 million unique visitors.The fastest-growing Top 10 gaming property was the WildTangent Network.

The report appears to count visits to the actual gaming sites asopposed to actual user numbers. Under this methodology, online worldssuch as Second Life and World of Warcraft attract a smaller share ofthe market as many users would not regularly visit a central page (suchas with Yahoo Games) but play directly via a desktop client. Notablythough, traffic to secondlife.com is surprisingly close to the visitornumbers for worldofwarcraft.com.